{"id":14940,"date":"2025-12-28T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=14940"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:18:24","slug":"ice-goons-melt-down-over-former-detainee-making-tiktoks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=14940","title":{"rendered":"ICE Goons Melt Down Over Former Detainee Making TikToks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-article\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Department of Homeland Security is incensed that former detainee Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no longer in their custody and is free to post to social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin reposted an X post by MAGA YouTuber Benny Johnson in which he shared a video posted by Abrego Garcia to TikTok on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TriciaOhio\/status\/2005001843664191934\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TriciaOhio\/status\/2005001843664191934\">writing<\/a>, \u201cSo we, at @DHSgov, are under gag order by an activist judge and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is making TikToks. American justice ceases to function when its arbiters silence law enforcement and give megaphones to those who oppose our legal system.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">Tricia McLaughlin\/X <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the video, which was posted to TikTok on Friday, Abrego Garcia can be seen lip-syncing to \u201cHimno de Victoria\u201d by Danny Berrios. In a second video posted to the platform, Abrego Garcia records the sky and trees before turning the camera toward himself and singing along to Jes\u00fas Adri\u00e1n Romero\u2019s \u201cSume\u0301rgeme.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Employees of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are under a gag order preventing them from making comments that could prejudice the public or interfere with Abrego Garcia\u2019s right to a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier this month, Abrego Garcia\u2019s lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622\/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.271.0.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622\/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.271.0.pdf\">accused<\/a> Border Patrol officer Greg Bovino of repeated violations of the gag order, citing comments made on national television in which he referred to Abrego Garcia as an \u201calien smuggler\u201d and \u201cwife beater,\u201d then asked the court to impose sanctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Under the auspices of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, senior officials in the Department of Homeland Security, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/wrongfully-deported-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia-detained-by-ice-for-new-deportation-to-africa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/wrongfully-deported-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia-detained-by-ice-for-new-deportation-to-africa\/\">including Noem herself<\/a>, have worked overtime to smear Abrego Garcia, repeatedly describing him as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-seethes-about-wrongfully-deported-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia-monster\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-seethes-about-wrongfully-deported-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia-monster\/\">monster<\/a>,\u201d human trafficker, domestic abuser, child predator, and MS-13 gang member. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Abrego Garcia, who has lived in Maryland for years with his American wife and child, has not been convicted of any crimes, and denies any involvement in MS-13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Abrego Garcia, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-administration-admits-accidentally-deporting-maryland-father-to-el-salvador-mega-prison\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-administration-admits-accidentally-deporting-maryland-father-to-el-salvador-mega-prison\/\">mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March<\/a>, has become one of the most high-profile targets of President Donald Trump\u2019s aggressive deportation strategy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura enter a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. The U.S. Government is threatening to deport Garcia, a Maryland construction worker from El Salvador, to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal to be charged with Human Smuggling and deported to Costa Rica. Earlier this year Garcia was wrongfully deported to a notorious anti-terrorism prison CECOT in El Salvador. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EMNTY7K5VZCNHBOTK3C6K4F7GU.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Abrego Garcia was released on Dec. 11 following a judge&#8217;s order. <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After a judge ordered that the 30-year-old be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-admin-surrenders-to-judges-and-returns-kilmar-abrego-garcia-from-el-salvador\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-admin-surrenders-to-judges-and-returns-kilmar-abrego-garcia-from-el-salvador\/\">returned to the U.S.<\/a>, the Trump administration immediately began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/wrongfully-deported-dad-demands-ice-stand-down\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/wrongfully-deported-dad-demands-ice-stand-down\/\">working to deport him again<\/a>, considering locations like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-admin-plans-to-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-for-a-second-timeto-uganda\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-admin-plans-to-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-for-a-second-timeto-uganda\/\">Uganda<\/a> and Liberia, countries to which he has no ties, and indicting him on human smuggling charges in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Abrego Garcia was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/abrego-garcia-can-remain-free-while-judge-considers-arguments-for-returning-him-to-immigration-custody\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/abrego-garcia-can-remain-free-while-judge-considers-arguments-for-returning-him-to-immigration-custody\">released from custody<\/a> on Dec. 11 after a federal judge determined that the government had no viable plan for deporting him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Abrego Garcia has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, and the Costa Rican government has <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/costa-rican-official-country-accept-abrego-garcia-contradicting\/story?id=127775855#:~:text=Interest%20Successfully%20Added-,Costa%20Rican%20official%20says%20country%20willing%20to%20accept%20Abrego%20Garcia,with%20refugee%20status%20or%20residency.\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/costa-rican-official-country-accept-abrego-garcia-contradicting\/story?id=127775855#:~:text=Interest%20Successfully%20Added-,Costa%20Rican%20official%20says%20country%20willing%20to%20accept%20Abrego%20Garcia,with%20refugee%20status%20or%20residency.\">agreed to accept him on humanitarian grounds<\/a>, but the Trump administration has insisted that Costa Rica is unwilling to accept him despite evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Tuesday, a federal judge canceled Abrego Garcia\u2019s trial in Tennessee and instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/27\/g-s1-103790\/judge-hearing-kilmar-abrego-garcia\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/27\/g-s1-103790\/judge-hearing-kilmar-abrego-garcia\">scheduled a hearing<\/a> for late January to examine whether or not prosecutors have been acting vindictively and selectively targeting him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ice-goons-melt-down-over-former-detainee-making-tiktoks\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security is incensed that former detainee Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no longer in their custody and is free to post to social media. Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin reposted an X post by MAGA YouTuber Benny Johnson in which he shared a video posted by Abrego Garcia to TikTok on Saturday, writing, &#8230; <a title=\"ICE Goons Melt Down Over Former Detainee Making TikToks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=14940\" aria-label=\"Read more about ICE Goons Melt Down Over Former Detainee Making TikToks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ICE-Goons-Melt-Down-Over-Former-Detainee-Making-TikToks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14942,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940\/revisions\/14942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}